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Memo reveals Copenhagen climate talks blame game

AS UN climate negotiators meet in Bonn, Germany, this week to pick up the pieces of last year’s failed climate talks in Copenhagen, outgoing UN climate chief Yvo de Boer has said that the chances of a deal this year were virtually nil. Speaking last week, he said the best that could be hoped for was a new international climate agreement in South Africa at the end of 2011.

Meanwhile, an inside account of the Copenhagen talks reveals that de Boer blamed the collapse of the talks on the Danish presidency of the event, in particular on Prime Minister Lars …